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Mathematics & Further Mathematics A Level

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Getting Ahead

Mathematics & Further Mathematics A Level at Alton Campus

Hello! Here is a selection of tasks you should do, between now and the start of term, to help prepare for your A Level Maths or Further Maths course.

All students should do the Watch and Visit tasks. If you are doing Further Maths, please also do Activity 1 – Senior Maths Challenge. If you are not doing Further Maths, please feel free to do this activity if you wish.

Once you have completed enrolment, you will be sent login details for myMaths and a list of tasks to complete before your first lesson. 

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To help remind you of the Maths you will need for A Level Maths (and Further Maths) please visit the TLMaths website.

This TLMaths site has videos to help explain the following essential skills for studying A Level Maths (and Further Maths):

  • Expanding Brackets
  • Factorising
  • Fractions
  • Indices
  • Rearranging Formulae
  • Simultaneous Equations
  • Solving Equations
  • Straight Line Graphs
  • Surds
  • Trigonometry

The videos will help bridge the gap between GCSE and A Level. Please watch them all, particularly those topics you are less confident about. If you are feeling more confident with a topic, you might like to listen to a question, do the question yourself, then listen to the solution to check you got it correct and completely understood the method.

Once you have watched the above videos, please go to the AMSP website.

The AMSP link will help the transition from GCSE to AS/A Level Mathematics and includes six topics:

  • Simplifying
  • Expanding
  • Factorising
  • Rearranging
  • Solving Equations
  • Sketching Graphs

The PDFs have investigations, puzzles, questions and solutions. Please have a go at all the questions, and then check your work to make sure you are answering them correctly. Some of them are straightforward, some of them are tricky. If it is easier, feel free to watch the related video(s) first.

The PDFs also have links to further activities, including graphing apps, videos and TED talks.

This task will hopefully be fun, but challenging, and help improve your problem-solving skills.

Click here and try last year’s Senior Maths Challenge.

Resources

Meet your Teachers

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    Rups Whybrow

  • Peter Beard

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    Jane MacDonald

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